And his parents went every year to Jerusalem to the festival of the passover.

Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

But what went ye out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, superior to a prophet.

From the blood of Abel even to the blood of Zacharias perishing between the altar and house: yea, I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

And I will shew you whom ye should fear: Fear him having power, after killing, to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him.

And he having answered says to him, Lord, let it go also this year, till I shall dig round it, and cast dung: